Evaluating Yusei Kikuchi's Performance: Insights & Strategy

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00:00we're going to start with uh you say i only pitch when i want to all right you say kikuchi he has

00:06jeffrey springs in the athletics and then he travels to lovely baltimore if you've ever been

00:10around the ballpark ballpark's beautiful but the surrounding area and that's so much has kade

00:15povich the stat on kikuchi i want to bring forward is that he's walked at least four

00:19in four straight starts maybe there's the prop right there uh georgie in on kikuchi for a two

00:25start week more than likely right let's say he's on your roster you're not starting on this week why

00:30is he on your roster so the question really becomes what was on the wave of why are you going to go

00:33well once again why why is he on your roster i mean athletics and ball tour okay we're not talking

00:38the rockies and the white socks here but we're still you know hey you're starting him against

00:42kikuchi 13 starts this season he's only allowed more than three earned runs in two of them

00:47all right danny that hasn't happened since April 26th or something all right right so he's been

00:53solid all right yeah zero uh i mean i don't know what you're what else you'd want here could

00:57wins be tough to come by sure the outlets can be shut down at times but it's a decent offense with

01:02trout neato ward uh hope uh so yeah i'm starting him this week uh with confidence no but hey it's

01:10you're not you're not going to pitch in sacramento i'd feel differently if he was by the way i probably

01:14wouldn't go that direction against the athletic sacramento but it's at home all right baltimore

01:17on the road okay is what it is here i don't love it but i don't hate it either so yes i'm on board

01:22the kikuchi train this week

01:23you